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Aaron Douglas, race futurist, contributes striking illustrations to Trombones-black figures in planes of primeval shade...
...agree with other subscribers who criticize your red border. There is enough "Red" in this country without putting it on your magazine. Why not try a good shade of blue...
...variations in light and shade, changed into electrical impulses, traveled to Manhattan over the wires. There the moving picture was reassembled. On a small screen (2 x 2½ in.) the speaker's face and movements appeared distinct and clear; on a large one they were distorted badly. Later the watchers in Manhattan saw vaudeville acts broadcast from the A. T. & T. Co. studio at Whippany, N. Y., 40 miles away...
...Bell system, a rate of 45,000 to a second is maintained. In the new system, as in Inventor Baird's, the object to be transmitted is divided up into many parts by beams of light flowing through a revolving disc. The variations of light and shade on the face are changed into variations of electrical current by three large photo-electric cells. Inventor Baird used one mysterious "supersensitive" cell. The varying current is then amplified 5,000,000,000,000,000 times before it is transmitted over wires or through the air by radio. At the receiving...
...satin coverlet with a portrait of himself as a naked leper at the head of his bed. The very furniture is orchideous, inscrutable. There is a walled garden with very narrow gates, for Signor D'Annunzio hates fat men or women. Sometimes, so Gabriele D'Annunzio says, the shade of Franz Liszt enters and plays his certainly not mechanical piano until the poet is in an ecstasy. Sometimes, instead, come very charming women. Signorina Marie Melato, popular actress, was entertained at Gardonne while the pilgrims waited at Assisi last week, and later she accompanied Signor D'Annunzio to Trasimeno where...